Study the unabridged version of this popular Bible study tool. Written by three pastor-scholars in the late nineteenth century, A Commentary, Critical, Experimental, and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments was a favorite resource of C. H. Spurgeon and other evangelical preachers. Each volume begins with introductions to the biblical books, followed by the text of scripture and verse-by-verse commentary. The authors succinctly comment on nuances in the original languages and historical details. They survey varying scholarly opinions without talking over readers’ heads.
“they imply they have no tokens of God’s love; they look at what God had taken, not at what God had left.” (Page 712)
“Spiritually, a man may assume all the semblances of spiritual life, yet have none, and so be dead before God.” (Page 345)
“by the actual proof of my divinity which I will give in reviving Israel.” (Page 345)
“True religion teaches patient submission, not sedition, even though the prince be an unbeliever. In all states of life let us not throw away the comfort we may have, because we have not all we would have. There is here a foretaste of Gospel love towards enemies (Matt. 5:44).” (Page 98)
“Glancing at the Jews, who had no ‘thoughts of peace,’ but only of ‘evil’ (misfortune), because they could not conceive how deliverance could come to them.” (Page 98)